Vaccine certificates providing business certainty

BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope. Photo: Cameron Burnell/Stuff.

BusinessNZ is endorsing proposed law changes that will provide greater clarity and certainty and reduce risks for businesses when making decisions about workplace vaccination mandates.

BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope says the requirement to vaccinate, and the simpler process for deciding on the requirement, would make the process for businesses more straightforward.

"Businesses seeking to protect their customers, staff and visitors to the workplace have found it very difficult to get clarity on what they can and can't do. The potential for legal challenge of business decisions in this area has created much uncertainty,” says Kirk.

The plan will require vaccination of all workers at businesses where customers need to show a Covid-19 vaccination certificate, and for other businesses it will introduce a simpler risk assessment process to follow when deciding whether vaccinations should be mandated at their workplace.

"The BusinessNZ Network has worked closely with the Government and NZCTU on this set of policies, which when legislated will make workplaces as safe as possible and give confidence to businesses, customers, staff, suppliers and others,” says Kirk.

Under the proposed legislation, employers will be required to keep records about workers' vaccination status.

Kirk says the requirement was needed so employers could have certainty about the health risks their business faced.

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2 comments

does not represent many buisnesses.

Posted on 30-10-2021 08:23 | By Cynical Me

This clown does not represent many businesses, so perhaps he just might like to toddle off into the sunset and let the rest of us get on with life. Like so many he is way behind the oversea's research and what is happening on all this. The Delta COVID-19 variant can easily transmit from vaccinated people to their household members, said a recent UK study, although its researchers concluded that vaccinations and boosters are the way forward. A year-long study from the Imperial College London published in The Lancet on Thursday found that the Delta variant is still highly transmissible within a vaccinated population. “By carrying out repeated and frequent sampling from contacts of COVID-19 cases, we found that vaccinated people can contract and pass on infection within households, including to vaccinated household members,” Dr. Anika Singanayagam, co-lead author of the study, said in a statemen


Freedom Fighter

Posted on 01-11-2021 09:16 | By wayjan

Business NZ clearly under contract with the government!


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